Eurozone Economic Outlook Discontinued
Economists from the ifo Institute, the KOF Swiss Economic Institute in Zurich, and Istat in Rome have ended their Eurozone Economic Outlook, with the final edition put out in March 2021. These short-term outlooks for the euro area had been published four times a year since January 2004. They provided an estimate of real gross domestic product, private consumer spending, gross fixed capital formation, industrial manufacturing, and the inflation rate in the euro area for the preceding quarter and an outlook for the current and following quarters.
The ifo Institute will continue to prepare outlooks for the euro area. Its latest forecast, “German Economy Caught between Openings and Supply Bottlenecks,” was published (in German) on June 16. The first section looks at the state of the global economy and provides an outlook. It also outlines the key figures for the euro area as a whole and the four largest economies in tabular form:
